{"id":12907,"date":"2024-02-14T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12907"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:01:38","slug":"does-ranked-choice-voting-disenfranchise-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12907","title":{"rendered":"Does Ranked Choice Voting Disenfranchise Minorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;McCarty concluded that minority voters exhaust their ballots at higher rates&nbsp;<em>when there is not a candidate of their same ethnic group<\/em>. But ballot exhaustion does not necessarily mean a voter didn&#8217;t vote their conscience. &#8220;We simply cannot assume that not using every RCV choice amounts somehow to being deprived of influence,&#8221; says Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute&#8217;s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. He characterizes the choice not to rank all candidates as &#8220;the functional equivalent of not choosing to vote in a runoff when no candidate you found acceptable made it to the final round.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will Mantell, FairVote&#8217;s communications director, agrees: &#8220;RCV actually makes&nbsp;<em>more<\/em>&nbsp;ballots count compared to single-choice elections or runoffs. It&#8217;s really hard to say that RCV doesn&#8217;t make more votes count in New York City, for example, when the last citywide primary runoff in 2013 had a&nbsp;<em>62 percent<\/em>&nbsp;turnout dropoff from the primary to the runoff.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0F7KGsoDEc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/16\/does-ranked-choice-voting-disenfranchise-minorities\/\">Does Ranked Choice Voting Disenfranchise Minorities?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Does Ranked Choice Voting Disenfranchise Minorities?&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/16\/does-ranked-choice-voting-disenfranchise-minorities\/embed\/#?secret=Jzs0rX5hGp#?secret=0F7KGsoDEc\" data-secret=\"0F7KGsoDEc\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;McCarty concluded that minority voters exhaust their ballots at higher rates when there is not a candidate of their same ethnic group. But ballot exhaustion does not necessarily mean a voter didn&#8217;t vote their conscience. &#8220;We simply cannot assume that not using every RCV choice amounts somehow to being deprived of influence,&#8221; says Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute&#8217;s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. He characterizes the choice not to rank all candidates as &#8220;the functional equivalent of not choosing to vote in a runoff when no candidate you found acceptable made it to the final round.&#8221;<br \/>\nWill Mantell, FairVote&#8217;s communications director, agrees: &#8220;RCV actually makes more ballots count compared to single-choice elections or runoffs. It&#8217;s really hard to say that RCV doesn&#8217;t make more votes count in New York City, for example, when the last citywide primary runoff in 2013 had a 62 percent turnout dropoff from the primary to the runoff.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/16\/does-ranked-choice-voting-disenfranchise-minorities\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,198,428,1178,1641,479],"class_list":["post-12907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-electoral-system","tag-minority","tag-ranked-choice-voting","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}